Robot renders are posted here with various angles. I had some fun experimenting with all the different modifiers and shapes. I also tried some things with the materials editor.
He is made up of mostly boxes for a sense of reliability. I started with a simple sketch and continued to have more ideas as I worked on him. The ear trumpets and the flue were made with tubes modified by the squeeze modifier. Other twisting pipes were made with bending and pieced together. Smaller tubes' edges were rounded with the softener and then used as embellishments.
Printing Stock Market report the old fashioned way. Self defense or office organizer? . . . or maybe just litter control.
Burrows Calculator on the right. Bicycle wheels seemed more fun then treads or train wheels. I looked at really early computers to design the mid section.
The lever's side embellishments were long boxes later twisted. After placing one, I just copied the others using the turn gizmo. I also had fun with the FFD 4x4x4 modifier to make handles and the light bulb. Nuts and bolts were small cylinders with lessened segments, turned, then copied. The computer wires were just skinny, long cylinders, but I had some trouble bending them the way I would like so I pieced about 4 cylinders together, bent them in different directions and then copied them over to each plug. For the scrolling stock market details, I found the text in the splines menu. To make them solid, I beveled them. The paper coming from his mouth, the Burroughs Adding Machine, and paper speared on the skewer were modified with wave, although, I get the sense that there is a better way to do this. I referenced images of steam punk style piping, photos of old light bulbs, antique bicycles, steam engines and early computers to get the details.
The light bulb was made with a sphere, stretched on the bottom. The filament is a combination of a sideways spring and 2 copies of the dial needle in opposite directions.
I worked out how to get the glass from this site, but had to leave off the raycaster. :-(
For the gold on the bicycle wheels and such, I followed this how-to. For everything else, such as wood and brass, I kind of guessed.
If you're interested. Here's a copy of what my concept sketches looks like as well.
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